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Wash Board. No. 231,005. Patented Aug.10,18`80.

WITNESSES: W" INVENTOR:

NITED STATES PATENT Tric.

JAMES B. CAMPBELL AND JOSIAH LINDSAY, OF MOUNT STERLING, KY.

- WASH-BOARD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of v Letters Patent No. 231,005, dated August 10, 1880. Application tiled May 7, 1880. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that we, JAMES B. CAMPBELL and JOSIAH L1NDsAY,ot' Mount Sterling, in the county of Montgomery and State ot' Kentucky, have invented a new and Improved Wash-Board, of which the following is a specilication.

The object of this invention is to provide a cheap and durable wash-board designed to force the water through the clothes by a more substantial resistance to the hand than is afforded by other wash-boards.

The invention consists ot' metal rods running` laterally across the face of the board parallel to each other, and at equal distances apart, and partly bedded in the board, grooves being; iliade in the spaces between the rods, thus substituting' the rods and the grooves between them t'or the corrugated metal sheet which commonly covers the face of a wash-board.

Figure l is a front elevation ot' the Washboard. Fig. 2 is a sectional elevation on line a: Fig'. l. Fig. 3 is a cross-section on line y y, Fir;- 1.

Similar letters of reference indicate corre spending parts.

1n the drawings, A represents the washboard, consisting of the body A', side strips, B B, and top strip, C. The body A is provided with deep transverse semicircular grooves d d, formed at equal distances apart, and parallel with each other, and the raised ribs or ridges f remaining` between these grooves d d are themselves longitudinally7 grooved.

D D are the metallic rods, secured in position by being laid in the grooves of the ribsf, and having their ends entered at either side into the mortises g, that are formed in the side strips, B, which side strips, B, are secured to the edges of the body A by the screws h or other convenient device. The top strip, C, is then screwed or otherwise attached across the body A and the tops of the side strips, B.

Some advantages of this device are that the rigid rods offer unyielding surfaces to the pressure upon them in the process of washing, and that the face of the wash-board will endure indefinitely in as effect-ive condition as at trst.

Having thus described our invention, we claim as newand desire to secure by Letters Patent-- As an improved article of manufacture, a washboard constructed substantially as herein shown and described, consisting of the body A', provided with parallel semicircular lateral grooves l d, grooved ribs or ridges f, mortised side strips, B, and metallic rods D D, as set forth. p

JAMES B. CAMPBELL. J OSIAH LINDSAY. Witnesses:

H. CLAY McKEE, JAS. B. WHITE. 

